Chaos at Home and Infants’ Play: Your Baby May Be More Adaptable Than You Think
— By Katelyn Fletcher Chaos in the home is bad for child development. Homes are chaotic if they are disorganized, unpredictable, and unstable. This could mean they are noisy, are crowded, have many...
View ArticleAdolescent Motherhood in Crisis
— By Alice J. Wuermli The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited concerns about the effects of crises on the development of children globally. Within this realm of concern is an area that continues to be...
View ArticleWhat Each Attachment Style Needs From Their Partner
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” — Erich Fromm I write regularly about attachment...
View ArticleReal Men Feel: Is There A Place For Emotions In Business? [Podcast]
Storytelling triggers every part of the brain. Listen to Real Men Feel, #215, “Is There A Place For Emotions In Business?” here: “If you have videos of people that you’ve helped telling their stories,...
View ArticleHow I Stopped Being So Anxiously Attached in My Relationships
Since more recently in my life, I was the spitting image of an anxiously-attached person: terrified of abandonment, ruminating about everything that could possibly go wrong in my relationships, being...
View ArticleAre They Avoidantly Attached or Just Not That Into You?
“Pain in this life is not avoidable. But the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.” — R.D. Laing. The excitement of a new relationship always has us psyched. We’re sleeping less, we’ve got more...
View Article3 Steps Towards Achieving a Secure Attachment Style
As we go back and forth on our relationship status from single to ready to mingle and single again, we often notice a pattern that fills the loop-holes. Understanding why relationships are falling...
View ArticleHow To Apply Attachment Theory in Family Courts: The World’s Leading Experts...
By Child & Family Blog Editor The start of 2021 sees a major new contribution to family court practice by child development researchers. A 35-page “Consensus position based on the concerted body...
View ArticleDo You Want Your Child To Obey You? Give Them Due Process
By Kendra Thomas As children move into their preteen years, they increasingly differentiate between rules and obey the ones they think are legitimate. One of the most promising ways to bolster...
View ArticleHow Dating Someone With a Secure Attachment Helps My Anxiety
I’m going to tread lightly on this subject. By no means am I saying that I found the cure for my anxiety, nor am I saying it’s my partner’s responsibility to alleviate my anxiety. But the fact is,...
View ArticleCare for Children by Caring for Parents, Says Neuroscience
By Nim Tottenham Early emotional experiences leave children with much more than memories. Neuroscience suggests how these experiences can literally shape the ways in which children – and the adults...
View ArticleThe Unconventional Tactic To Improve Your Attachment Style
Before I describe how to improve your attachment style, I suppose you’re wondering “what is attachment theory and why the hell should I learn about it?” Attachment theory describes the ways we think,...
View ArticleWhat Konrad Lorenz and Geese Can Teach You About Attachment
Have you ever wondered why do we keep falling in love with people who are bad for us? Or why do certain people stay with partners who are unkind, inattentive, and even abusive? Usually, it all comes...
View ArticleHow To Identify Someone With a Secure Attachment Style
When it comes to a serious relationship, what do you usually look for in a partner? I mean, besides their looks, what are some things that attract you to a person and make you feel like they’re worth...
View ArticleAre You Bad At Dating, or Are You Insecurely Attached?
Attachment patterns are central to being able to form and keep relationships, whether intimate relationships or platonic connections. Attachment patterns are formed in childhood but often play out...
View ArticlePlayboy/Playgirls Are the Most Insecure
People who date or talk to multiple suitors at the same time usually have many underlying issues. Afraid to get serious because someone they deeply loved has shattered their hearts before, and they...
View ArticleIs Your Relationship All Structure and No Security?
Do you want to have a secure relationship? Of course you do. Nobody wants to feel insecure about the person they are planning to spend the rest of their life with. Okay then, let’s ask a different...
View ArticleHow To Identify a Securely Attached Person
Do you often find yourself involved with partners who are afraid of commitment and intimacy? Did all your former partners violate your boundaries or repeatedly played mind games? Or maybe, on the...
View ArticleWhat Makes Us Human? How Minds Develop Through Social Interactions
By Jeremy I. M. Carpendale & Charlie Lewis Just how social we are as a species is made even more evident by the COVID-19 lockdowns that have restricted our everyday social interactions and...
View ArticleBeing the Least Popular Attachment Type
I am an Avoidant personality type, and I just want you to leave me alone. I’m serious. It’s that simple. The internet is full of anxious-attachment people insisting that y’all are the only ones who...
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